Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David Thoreau

Books, Wealth, Nations

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
Henry David Thoreau

Earth, Shall, Leaves

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
Henry David Thoreau

Faith, Doubt, Her

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
Henry David Thoreau

Greatest, Enjoy, Advantage

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Long, Run

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Henry David Thoreau

Best, Before, Calm

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Living, Getting

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
Henry David Thoreau

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Henry David Thoreau

Beauty, Human, Memory

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
Henry David Thoreau

Men, Succeed, Born

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Henry David Thoreau

End, Pretty, Serious

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Henry David Thoreau

War, Nature, God

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
Henry David Thoreau

Society, Past, May

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
Henry David Thoreau

Speaking, Wilderness, Traveler

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Alone, Give

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau

Rich, Whose, Pleasures

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
Henry David Thoreau

Person, Slothful

Being is the great explainer.
Henry David Thoreau

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

Men, Far, Question

Simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Sky, Carries

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Henry David Thoreau

Finding, Paid, Suspicion

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
Henry David Thoreau

Treat, Nor, Capable

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
Henry David Thoreau

Rule, Finding, Paid

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
Henry David Thoreau

God, Liberal, View

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 12, 1817

Died: May 6, 1862

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